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According to Pulse by Maeil Business News Korea, South Korea’s exports of information and communication technology (ICT) products reached a record high of $220.4 billion last year and its trade surplus also hit the highest level at $113.3 billion, primarily thanks to semiconduct..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) The Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) held a New Year's Greeting Ceremony with about 250 attendes including Chairman Sung, Ki-hak of the Korea Federation of Textile Industries, and pledged a take-off of the textile and f..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) The global semiconductor industry is expected to expand 2.6 percent on-year in 2018 on steady demand, despite an end to a super boom in the memory chip segment, a report showed Monday. According to the recent report from market resear..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) Worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) is forecast to exceed KRW 800 trillion this year. In particular, Korea is named as one of 'Top5' for IoT spending along with the U.S., China, Japan, and Germany, and expected to lead ..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) The Korea's shipbuilding industry, which surpassed China and secured the highest annual amount of orders last year, pledges to take another great leap forward this year. According to the the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) On January 6, KOTRA announced that KOTRA and the Korea Electronics Association (KEA) will jointly operate a Korea exhibition booth at CES 2019, the world's biggest electronics & IT exhibition show held in Las Vegas from 8th to 11th of..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) The amount of foreign investment the Yellow Sea Free Economic Zone Authority of Gyeonggi Province attracted last year was the largest in its history since the first opening in 2008. The Authority said on January 6 that it had attracte..

According to Yonhap News, (SEOUL=Yonhap News) Carmakers sold more than 120,000 units of environment-friendly vehicles in South Korea last year, up 27 percent from a year earlier, industry data showed Monday. Sales by both domestic and foreign carmakers reached 123,387 eco-friendl..